Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.